CCIA Europe co-hosted a well-attended breakfast event today, September 23, on the EU’s engagement with China on digital trade issues. The occasion is next week’s EU-China High Level Economic Dialogue in Beijing which see senior EU participation by Commissioners Malmstrom, Oettinger and [ More ... ]Read More

Last Thursday, CCIA hosted a panel discussion on a host of cybersecurity information sharing bills under debate in Congress. The event, which was opened by remarks from Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., aimed to capture the tension between the need for a robust information sharing regime between the [ More ... ]Read More

As cybersecurity threats increase in sophistication each year, the sharing of cyber threat information between the government and private sector has become a high priority.
President Obama signed an executive order designed to facilitate information sharing, and offered a legislative proposal to [ More ... ]Read More

Numerous data breaches in 2014 at big companies like J.P. Morgan Chase, the Home Depot, eBay, and, most recently, Sony Pictures have made cybersecurity even more important to consumers and especially the tech industry. The House and Senate kicked off the 114th Congress last week with hearings in [ More ... ]Read More

Washington - President Obama touched on an array of proposals related to increasing cybersecurity and privacy protections for consumers in last night’s State of the Union address. In the wake of last year’s Sony hack and other high profile breaches, concerns about the security of corporate [ More ... ]Read More

The European Parliament’s vote from March 2014 correctly improved the scope of the Network and Information Directive by focusing on truly critical infrastructure such as the energy, banking, and transport sectors. CCIA encourages the Council to maintain the same focus in their discussions. We [ More ... ]Read More

Last week, as the keynote speaker at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ event about the role of independent agencies in cybersecurity, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill discussed the FTC’s current efforts to enforce sound cyber and data security practices in the commercial sector, [ More ... ]Read More

Washington, D.C. – A new poll released today by the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) found that Internet users are highly concerned about the theft of personal and financial information and believe strongly that the federal government should do more to protect them. This [ More ... ]Read More

For those who don’t keep as close an eye on privacy, the past week has seen a flurry of activity on a number of privacy related fronts from the US Congress. Topics have included cybersecurity, government surveillance, and the Do Not Track process. Most of these conversation are obviously still [ More ... ]Read More

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